Multiple Fatalities and Disasters Across Cities
Four deaths and fourteen injuries due to heat in Chicago. Fatal crash in Superior, Wisconsin. Executions in Memphis. Drowning of Bernard Redpenning in Chicago. Navy adopts Ohio battleship. Parisians drown near St Nazaire. San Francisco and Cleveland obits and accidents noted. Quarantine on Indiani crew. industrial deaths in Indiana and Illinois. Italian chapel collapse in Perme kills sixteen. Various political and crime notices across states.
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Chicago
Ae & Peel
J. P Morrow
T. A. Albrecht
Superior Wie
Toots Taylor
M. Milla
Maj
Milla
Memphi
Tenn
Bernard Redpenning
Chicago Athletic Association
Navy Department
Train
San Francisco
St. Nazaire
Loire
Beverly Letcher
North Shore Railway
Northwest Notes Roundup of Deaths Appointments and Incidents
Postmaster named for Wollen Natrona County Wyoming follows O G Johnson resignation. Dr Louis J Wolff of Silverton Oregon chosen surgeon for Peary North Pole expedition leaving New York Sunday. Pioneer Oregon settler Joseph Keeney dies in Walla Walla from chronic illness. Gen Oliver Andron of Boston dies in Seattle from a stroke. Ranchman J Lower dies by asphyxiation in a 90 foot well near Milton Oregon. The German ship Theben returns to Tacoma to load wheat for Mexican ports before tariff. Mrs Fannie B Ainsworth dies in Portland at 71 after two year decline. Martin Sawmill at Hog Valley Union Oregon burns. total loss. Packing house plans in Baker City. Baker City Packing Co incorporated. Baker City liquor store robbed. $15 and bottles taken. Montana Governor Toole unable to attend Lewis and Clark expo. Montana week postponed. Doctor Jim, Indian 106, found dead with bullet wound near Arlington Washington. Dr Mary A Latham of Portland sentenced to $1000 fine and four years for arson in Mead Washington. Miner W F Patrick dies at Rhyolite Nevada from intestinal troubles. Bullfrog pioneer. posse battles unknown madman near Douglas Wyoming. Stage robbery near Bourne Sumpter thwarted. Portland OR mortgage for $10 million placed on plant by United States Mortgage and Trust Co New York. Miners May and Cahill escape explosion in Bourne tunnel. George Wade escapee from McNiel’s Island captured by J Matthews. Paul Dion shoots at Nellie Mott then attempts suicide. both to recover. Federal court Tacoma awards $210,000 to James Barber against Northwest Improvement Co.
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Char B. Skinner
Wollen
Natrona
Wyoming
O. G. Johnson
Louis J. Wolff
Silverton
Ore
North Pole
New York
Joseph Keeney
Oregon
Northwest
Walla Walla
Gen
Oliver. Andton
Boston
Washington
Seattle
J. Lower
Stephens
Milton
F. Patrick
West
California
Colorado
Ney
Goldfeld
Converse County
Wyo
Litle Bar Elder Creek
Douglas
Bourne
Sumpter
Portland Oro
General Electric Company
United States Mortgage and Trust Company of
Death ends Gen Blackmar's Northwest G A R tour
Gen W W Blackmar commander in chief of the G A R died from intestinal nephritis in Boise Idaho where he had been touring Grand Army posts in the Northwest since July 10. Born July 1841 in Pennsylvania he fought from private to captain with Custer's regiments at Five Forks and rode with Lee at Appomattox. King succeeds him as commander in chief.
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Blackmar
W. W. Blackmar
Boise
Idaho
Northwest
Pennsylvania
Boston
Brimmer School
Bridgewater Normal School
Exeter
N. H
Fifteenth
Pennsylvania Cavalry
First
West Virginia Veteran Cavalry
Custer
Five Forks
Lee
Appomattox
Antietam
Stone River
Chickamauga
Chattanooga
Shenandoah Valley
Richmond
Petersburg
Sailor's Creek
Appomattox Courthouse
Govs. Long
Talbott and Rice
Massachusetts
King
John R. King
Washington
Hingsham
Triumph for Beauty in Early Vienna Frat Pageant
Fragmentary OCR yields a quirky scene with a Vienna setting, a pork butcher owner, and a beauty pageant where civic charm and social norms collide. Mentions a city fraternal event, judges, and elopement amid a quirky mix of spectators and local characters.
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Vienna
Alphabetical Attributes in a Victorian Wife Contest
A historical note describes a contest listing virtues deemed desirable in a wife. The catalog includes traits such as beauty, dignity, kindness, obedience, prudence, and youth, with critical judgment on which qualities remain feasible for a partner.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Foneph T. Honder
Indian Division
The
Interior Department
Thomas J. Parsons
del Monte Flour Milling Company
San Francisco Board of Trade
Indiana
Prince Hilkoff
Hamburg
Germany
Cleveland
Ohio
Richard Wareham
Knights of Pythias
Rock Island
Ill
Grand Trunk Railroad
Stilwell
Laporte County
Joplin
Calvin Rudy
Nebraska
Brnent M. Pollard
Netawka
Franely W. Brown
Pollard
BJ. Burkett
United States
Chapel of Women's Hospital
Perme
Italy
Charles Huntington
Louis Broker
Los Angeles
Cal
Nona Leslie
Huntington
D. Q. Iyes
Burlington & Missouri River Railroad
Omaha
St. Louis
Milton Knight
Baron von Ende
Baron Krupp
Cordoba
Buenos Ayres
Turon
Winiell
Dare
Bleas BheMel Stool & Iron Company
Birmingham
Ala
Littleton
Flat Top
Theben
Tacoma
Mexico
Fannie B. Ainsworth
John ©. Ainsworth
Portland
Martin
Hog Valley
Union
Baker City
Baker City Packing Company
J. Mueller
Toole
Montana
Jim
Darrington Branch
Arlington
Wash
Mary A. Latham
Latham
Mead, Wash
M. PF. May
Dan Cahill
George Wade
McNiel’e Island
Colunmbbia River
St Helens
J. Matthews
Wade
Paul Dion
Nellie Mott
Seattie
Diary
Dion
Barber
G. A
Venezuela
Wiliam J Calhoun
Calhoun, Leitard
Caleta
Tween Provident
American Asphalt Company
Calhoun
Frontier Supply Co
First National Bank
Kemmerer
Apital
Owni ‘Thos
Bneddon
John L. Lane
Arte
Europe
BRER
Milwaukee
Denver
Wm. O'Connell
Kemmerer, Wyoming
U. S
Attoheney
C. T. Gamble
Diamondville
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